Concludes that reporters' attitudes toward a news source seemed to have little impact on news stories or editorials. (RB)

Adding social sanction as a variable to value-belief models improves the explanatory power with regard to people's intentions toward the media. (RB)

Concludes that editors and publishers should put more emphasis on the availability of their product if they want to increase circulation. (RB)

Concludes that where mayoral campaigns are competing for attention with other election contents at the state and local level, the local newspapers' editorial endorsements have a substantial impact. (RB)

Refutes the thesis that relates various types of mass media, especially the newspaper, to rates of aggression, violence, and deviance by comparing crime statistics during strike and nonstrike periods.

Finds willingness to buy is affected both by the content of the advertisement and the buyer's predisposition to buy the advertised brand. (RB)

Concludes military officers had less favorable attitudes than civilians did concerning the right to publish "military" news, but few officers saw harm in the publication of the Pentagon Papers. (RB)

A discussion of the predominance of candidate image in voting behavior. (HB)

Concludes that there is no single preference for newspaper format among college-educated readers. (RB)

An examination of what film libraries can do in advancing film study. (CH)

A discussion of the predominance of candidate image in voting behavior. (HB)

Perspective realism, particularly as modified into the special case of adversarial perspectivism, and the analogy of reciprocal concave and convex world views, is an important and neglected component in accounting for the widespread discrepancies in the reporting of so-called "terrorist" events. However, the tendencies toward cooperation…

To examine the success of the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) 1982 decision not to select a standard transmission system for AM stereophonic broadcasting (instead leaving it to the marketplace), this paper documents and analyzes the first 7 years of the AM stereo marketplace. Following an explanatory introduction, the paper's first…

This paper argues for a synthesis between the major competing paradigms of empirical positivism and critical theory, into a multiperspective methodology. Citing recent efforts to incorporate such a merger, the paper concludes that, though such a copula appears necessary, it remains problematic when considered within the context of an immutable…